Reception to Year 5  Swimming,  All week, 4th Dec - 8th December, Norwood Pool,  $20 cost  - volunteers will be needed.

Year 6 Aquatics Day at West Lakes, Tuesday 5th December,  All Day,  $10 cost.

Whole school excursion to The Adelaide Zoo,  Thursday 14th December,  no cost  - volunteers will be needed.

Notes will be sent home in a few weeks.

On Wednesday 25th October we celebrated and thanked our wonderful, dedicated team of teachers for making our school the special place that it is.

They really appreciated the students dressing up as one of them and the notes and mementos they received.

On Wednesday 1st November, Sue from  RAA Street Smart visited our school to teach students how to keep safe on the roads. Some of the safety awareness students learned was how to cross a road safely and how to be safe when on wheels.

Both clubs have commenced again for term 4 on the following days:

Coding Club is on Mondays at first break

Environment  Club is on Thursdays at second break

In P1 we have been busy investigating data for our maths inquiry, with a class survey into how we would like to use our reward time at the end of the year. A number of options were brainstormed, and then we had a look at the data, and determined the most popular option. In our writing we are busy writing a narrative revolving around Halloween, and have made a start on out novel study, revolving around the Australian classic, Storm Boy. We have had a look at the setting (The Coorong) and this week will be taking a closer look at the characters and the plot. In addition, we have all been enjoying a close look at water and the states of matter in inquiry, with a number of fantastic experiments taking place in the classroom last week. Plenty of melting, evaporating and freezing of various substances was taking place!

We are very excited to be starting persuasive texts in P2. We have began the writing process by thinking about all our prior knowledge about persuasive texts. Some students used examples of texts they had written previously to help them map all their ideas. We worked in pairs to complete a bus stop activity, this is where students spend time at each station adding to the previous groups ideas. When we looked at all the information we had collated we realized how much knowledge we already have. Our next steps will be to choose a moral or ethical issue we feel strongly about and the writing of a first draft to use as a base for the rest of the term .

On Thursday 26th October, the Year 6 students went on an excursion to the Adelaide Festival Theatre and participated in a Paper Sculpture Workshop as part of the Oz Asia Festival.

This term our Inquiry Central Idea is What’s the go with H20? We have been conducting experiments looking at the different states of matter that is water. We predicted how long it would take for an ice cube to melt in our hands, on a stove, with a hairdryer and in the fridge. We discovered that the fridge was the slowest and the stove was the quickest. We did an experiment to discover how water becomes steam. Some of us finally had the answer to why when we shower, we can write on the shower screen.

Our Investigations this term is also centred around our Inquiry. We are exploring sand and water in the sandpit, small world play with animals that live under water, water colour painting to see how water and paint interact, floating and sinking with different objects and detectives which is a continuation on some learning from last term.

Primary 

Primary students have been experimenting with ink, adding salt and dish liquid to see how water changes as a mixture. They have been inspired by aerial photographs of water systems.

This term in Health and Physical Education, students will:

• Explore different movement concepts through game situations while solving a variety of movement challenges. They will apply rules and scoring systems to promote fair play and perform a range of roles during team movement activities E.G. timer, scorer, referee.
• Identify health symbols, messages and strategies in their community that support their health and safety (Juniors)
• Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions, and behaviours.  They will also identify and describe how media impacts one's health and well-being (Primary) 

Over the past 2 weeks, students have been learning about the fundamentals of volleyball, dig, set, serve and spike. The primary children have been using these movement concepts to play games in teams.

“We had a cricket match on 28th October and we won our first game, winning by 50 runs! The match was near Waterfall Gully. We had a student from another school as wicket keeper and then Thomas (P2) for the next 10 overs.” Guru (P1)